On Wed, Mar 01, 2000, Don Roemer <droe2[_at_]earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Roland J. Cole <cole[_at_]spi.org> wrote:
> >
> > We at SPI do thousands of pages of OCR on public domain documents.
> > We know all the careful and sometimes very creative work that goes
> > into choosing how to OCR, what to OCR, how to represent in text what
> > was a picture, etc. I have no question that you have a copyright in
> > the electronic version as a derivative work.
>
> It is a shame that few courts agree with you. Where is your originality?
> You discuss "sweat of the brow" issues that were dispensed with a long
> time ago. The overruling of "copying a copy" in Alfred Bell sounded
> the death knell for rights in a work that may have cost someone untold
> amount of dollars to [re]produce.
If your hand corrections amount to no more than making your digital copy an exact copy of the original, there is no copyrightable authorship. Correcting missellings or missing words is not authorship.
Stephen Fishman
<sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com>
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